History of sports medicine - 1934

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A newspaper article from 1934

1934

Another newspaper article from 1934 reported the following:

1934

Article from an American newspaper:

1934

In 1934, the Department of Physiology at Cambridge University produced the film 'Methods of measuring metabolism and basal metabolism: Krogh and Douglas bag' on the use of the Douglas bags. The picture shows the difference between the filling at rest and after an exercise test.

1934

During the congress of the Belgian Medical Federation in Dinant, the 'Societé Médicale Belge d'Education Physique et de Sports' (SMBEPS) was established. Liege Professor Lucien Brouha (1899-1968), a specialist in exercise physiology, was elected first president. Two years later, Brouha emigrated to the United States where he started working at the world-famous 'Harvard Fatigue Laboratory' and where he published the 'Harvard Step-Test' in 1943.

1934

The spirometer of British instrument builder Charles Fielding Palmer (1891-1987) was based on the Knipping Type Closed Circuit Respiration Apparatus, with which one could also measure the oxygen spent and the carbon dioxide produced.